Chapter 848

Dan Qiao recognizes the blood-colored killer move as Song Zi Xing’s Blood Tu Su. Gu Immortals from Tu Su City had once seized many of Song Zi Xing’s gains. In revenge, he turned the city to dust and killed its two Gu Immortals. ^{ch. 848}

Song Zi Xing descends. Dan Qiao goes pale with immense fear and asks why Song Zi Xing has come. Song Zi Xing says that after he lost to Feng Jiu Ge, Dan Qiao ambushed him, and that he has hunted Dan Qiao since, until Dan Qiao surfaced by accepting Vicious Lightning Fiend’s challenge. Dan Qiao, a grand rank seven Gu Immortal, lowers his head and offers to apologize rather than fight the odds. ^{ch. 848}

Song Zi Xing’s demonic reputation once rivaled Shi Lei’s. Betraying Myriad Dragon Dock, he escaped its pursuit, killing four of the eight Gu Immortals sent after him, crippling three, and forcing one to retreat. His most famous defeat came against Feng Jiu Ge, who beat him in three moves. ^{ch. 848}

Song Zi Xing mocks the apology, saying he would have relented had Dan Qiao understood sooner. He answers Dan Qiao’s offer to pay any price with a demand for life. He calls not torturing Dan Qiao his greatest kindness and declares him doomed to die today. ^{ch. 848}

Song Zi Xing mocks Vicious Lightning Fiend, who had wanted to challenge him. Vicious Lightning Fiend offers to step aside and demands release, threatening to self-detonate his lightning deities otherwise. Song Zi Xing grants a lightning deity could break Blood Tu Su, but doubts any escape outruns blood rainbow flash. ^{ch. 848}

A flaw in Vicious Lightning Fiend’s act alerts Song Zi Xing. His Heart Blood Premonition then warns him of a trap. He tries to leave at once, but Vicious Lightning Fiend and Dan Qiao attack together with Lightning Lock and Lava Chain. His blood sea blocks them and he vanishes in blood rainbow flash, abandoning the blood path Immortal Gu that built Blood Tu Su. Flying far, he finds the mountain unchanged, realizes he is trapped in an illusion, and flies back toward Blood Tu Su. ^{ch. 848}

Sixteen Gu Immortals, three of them rank seven, strike him at once. When the light fades, blood-red armor covers him. Furious, he recognizes Heavenly Lotus Sect’s Illusion Garden and asks whether all ten sects have joined the hunt. He has recently committed no great crimes, so he reasons only Heavenly Court could force such cooperation. ^{ch. 848}

Three rank seven Gu Immortals explain that Vicious Lightning Fiend’s challenges were a wisdom path lure. The lightning deity derives from Blood Deity, whose recipe Song Zi Xing wanted, and Dan Qiao’s presence completed the bait. Song Zi Xing’s own caution nearly spoiled the plan. He trailed Vicious Lightning Fiend through more than ten earlier challenges without striking. Only the self-detonation of one lightning deity finally baited him. Three wisdom path Gu Immortals also jammed his Heart Blood Premonition, blinding him to danger. ^{ch. 848}

Some of the assembled Gu Immortals charge in personally. One vows revenge for the Sun clan’s seven hundred and thirty dead. Another accuses him of killing a brother and raping a sister-in-law. Song Zi Xing is known as Blood Dragon for his thirst for vengeance. Dan Qiao, hunted into hiding and pressed to his limits, agreed to act as bait. ^{ch. 848}

Eight rank six Gu Immortals, lone cultivators who deeply hate him, attack Song Zi Xing directly. The ten sects’ own Gu Immortals hold a tight ring in the air. Song Zi Xing had tried to avoid the ten great ancient sects, but since killing a person who has escaped fate would greatly aid the healing of fate Gu, Heavenly Court ordered the sects to cooperate against him. Attacked from every side and unable to fight back, Song Zi Xing flees, his blood rainbow flash speed leaving Central Continent’s lone cultivators behind. ^{ch. 848}